MP3 CD won't play on itunes

I'd like to reference an archived thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=240625&threadrate=2&messageid= 1202124#1202124
Looks like that guy was having similar issues. Doesn't look resolved there.
So my friend gave me an mp3 cd. I brought it in to work to listen to it there and did so just fine.
I bought it home, where I have itunes, and the cd just spins.
So I took it back in to work, copied all the mp3s onto a flash drive and took that back home again.
I cannot get itunes to admit that the mp3s exist. If I try to import them, nothing happens. if I try to double-click to play them... nothing happens.
I tried to go old-school and see if WMP could handle 'em (well, it worked at work, right?) and it said I was missing a codec.
I do, however, have other MP3s that play just fine... ( figures, I go to double check that this is still the case and iTunes won't even start up anymore.)
so it seems to think it is a codec issue. My knowledge of codecs is nearly non-existant.
Any help?

Okay, an update (if anyone is actually reading this)
So my business computers apparently all automatically encrypt any data on the C drive now. So when I transferred the disk to the PC and then to my flash drive, it was probably encrypted in the process.
That'd possibly explain why they wouldn't play off the flash drive.
I'm still hung up on why the disk won't play in the first place tho'.

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